Reinier Voet & Pigalle44 – Gypsy jazz for the 21st century

A new CD, new shop

Number seven of the Reinier Voet & Pigalle44 catalogue is out! Karin van Kooten guests on violin. The recordings were made in the legendary Hilversum Studio, where Django did a live radio broadcast in 1937.[…]

With Dick Vanderharst

Reinier goes back a long time with guitarist, composer and bandoneonplayer Dick Vanderharst. Already at Reinier’s graduation at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague they were musical friends. Since then they have been working together[…]

In Django’s footsteps, Voet style

January 13th took the trio, with Karin van Kooten as a special guest, to the legendary Studio 2 of MCO (Muziek Centrum van de Omroep) in Hilversum.The studio that was designed as the fist radiostudio[…]

Pigalle12

In the winter of 2017 Reinier, Jan and Karin were invited to play in Hotel Central in Den Bosch together with bassist Eric Timmermans. As we had to pass some time we wandered around in[…]

With Sims and Maggie

Jan met Sims and Maggie, of Harmonious Wail, in the late 1990ies while touring the US with the Robin Nolan Trio. What fun it was to host an evening with these musical friends in Kapitein[…]

Feature in magazine

Reinier and the band are featured in Robin Nolan’s Gypsy Jazz Guitar Secrets magazine, and happy with Robin Nolan’s kind words! “Kings Of Amsterdam Swing: Reinier Voet & Pigalle44” I’ve known Reinier Voet and Jan[…]

In Samois with Patrus

The summer of 2013 took the band to Samois. On the last day of the festival we met Patrus, of the Patrus53 Youtube channel and we played some songs for him.

My Room is out

For this release Reinier invites violinist Jelle van Tongeren. An album that is comprised of songs from the ‘gypsy jazz’ songbook but also with music from the pen of Reinier. This release has been made[…]

Reinier Voet

For the recording of My Room, Reinier almost exclusively played on his first Gypsy Jazz guitar: a 1979 Joseph DiMauro, Model Jazz II. My Room can be seen as a heart meant tribute to Joseph[…]

Jan Brouwer

Co-founder of the band Jan Brouwer, seemingly chuffed with his Favino #148 from 1972